This is going to be the sticky of the painting board. If you have any links in your bookmarks with techniques, information, accessibility to less easy to fine products post them here and they will be compiled into the first few posts in this thread. Please note that these topics should answer most questions which you have, but if you have a question which has not been answered and the topic in question is more than a few months old, please start a new topic to discuss your issue.

Ranked with difficulty. No rank means it's either not referring to a specific activity, or is a link to a page that has lots of links on it of varied difficulty.* - Investigator (easy)** - Arbitrator (tricky)*** - Proctor (hard)**** - Marshall (very hard)

Internet ToolsColour Match 1 (the way different paint ranges compare to each other, e.g. if you want to make a Blood Red with Vallejo Model range)GlossaryColour TheoryColour Wheel - This site is your new best friend. Love it always.Kuler (used for designing colour schemes)Light Cage (used for viewing the play of light on human features from varied sources)

Keeping this thread up to date is an ongoing project. If you come across with new sites, you think a thread is worth of remembering, you have a tutorial in your bookmarks you think we could all benefit from then please contact a local or global moderator or post them here and the list can be updated. This is also a two way street, as new sites become available old sites go under. If a link becomes dead again please post indicating as such so that it can be removed.

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I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.

I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.

uhhh.....dude, ur way over thinkin this, its kinda hard to follow, any ways i need some help with highlighting any tips, ps i do have one model up in the gallery it is the sister of battle with heavy bolter newer addition

Fella if you think I'm over thinking this you're seriously underestimating the scope and level to which miniature painting can be taken.

Your question is incredibly vague. Start a new thread for it in which you should explain what it is you're trying to do, the problems you're finding with it an also include a link to the picture or the picture itself.

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I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.

Choosing the right colour for the job is half of the success when painting. You can do really astonishing things when choosing carefully.Many beginner painters make poor decisions, and I know a couple of veteran painters who have problems with that as well.Never fear for Manit0u is here! Here's something you should read before you paint:

This website provides you with all the basic information on colours you'll need. It shows colour application in painting, printing and tv display so covers a broad range of subjects.

Articles of particular interest for miniature painting include:

Color wheel - it shows you what colours create others, which are primary, secondary, tertiary, which are going to stand out more etc.

Complementary colours - this is for people stuck in belief that you add black to make paint darker and white to make it brighter. It teaches you for example, that if you want to shade your yellow you have to mix it with purple, green you mix with red and so on.

Colour combinations - this is to make sure that our final result is going to be harmonious, will look right.

It also needs to be said that while understanding color theory is helpful it has one important limitation. We do not work with colors, we work with pigments. Pigments lack transparency and as such often do not produce results predicted by color theory. For example, according to the theory mixing blue and red should produce violet. A question - which red and which blue? Sites like this are very much focused on web design and on a screen (or at least on a properly calibrated screen) you indeed work with colors, not with pigments.